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'T.LAND01\I.A WASHING MACHINE.

No. 605,962. Patented June 21,1898.

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T. LANDON.

WASHING MACHINE. n

No. 605,962. Patented June 21,1898.

1720722423 l 'L www WHIJZSSZS INirnn STATES THoMAs LANDON; or KUNG'KL, PENNSYLVANIA.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. eofaeea'aatedhune- 21, 1898. Application filed January Z8, 18917. Serial No; 621,071.l V(lll'o model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:v l

Be it known that I, THoMAs'LANDoN, a citt. Zen of the United States, residing atKunckle, in the county of Luzerne 'audhState of Penn- Sylvania, have inventeda newand useful Vashing-Machine, of which the following is a specification. A I

The invention relates to improvements inv washing-machines. Y

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of washing inachines and to provide a simple, inexpensive,` and efcient one, capable of rapidly and thoroughly washing clothes without injuring the fabrics and at the expenditure of a minimum amount of labor.

The invention consists in the novel con-` struction and arrangement of parts, hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the ac*-l companying drawings, and pointed out in Ithe claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a washing-machine constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view, the cover being open and the upper rubber being swung backward to afford access to the' interior ot' the washing-machine. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view. Fig. 4 isa detail perspective View of the upper oscillating rubber. is a detail perspective' view of the metal frame of the upper rubber.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawings.

l designates a washing-machine body supported by suitable legs 2, provided with a curved bottom and having open vertical bearing-slots 3 at its opposite sides. Within the body 1 are arranged upper and lower reverselyoscillating rubbers 4 and 5, provided with journals 6 and 7, which are arranged in the bearing-slots 3 of the sides of the body.

The upper and lower oscillating rubbers are substantially semicylindrical, the upper rubber being sufficiently smaller than the lower one to fit within the same, as shown. The lower rubber 5 is provided with an inner curved rubbing-surface 8, formed by corrugations of transverse strips 9, which connect the sides of the lower rubber; Y

The upper rubber is composed of segmen- Fig. 5V

tal side pieces and transverse bars lO, which havetheir lower or outer edges sigmoidally curved to provide a rubbinglsurface, and the projecting portions of the edges of the transversebars 10 are alternately arranged in order to bring the projections of one bar opposite the depressions of the adjacent bars. The long curvesl of the bars 10 of the upper rubber, combined with the reverse arrangement ot thebars, so that the projections of one bar occur opposite the depressions of the other, produce pronounced pockets and provide a lnore'etective rubbing-surface than that of the lower rubber, whereby the upper rubber is'adapted to carry the clothes with it overthe surface of the lower rubber.

The reversely-oscillating rubbers are operatedby a crank-shaft 11, journaled in posts or supports 12 at the rear 0r hinged end of a cover 13, and the said shaft 11 is provided with a central crank-bend 14 and a crankarm 15, which is located at one end of it. The central crank-bend is connected by a pitman 16 with an arm 17, which is rigid with the rubber 4 and whichextends through a longitudinal slot 18 of the cover, and the crankarm 15 is connected by a pitman 19 with an arm 2O of the lower rubber 5. The arm 20 of the lower rubber 5 is located at one side of thewashing-Inachine body and is preferably formed integralwith the adjacent journal 7. v' `The arm V17 is centrally connected with the upper rubber by means of a metal frame 21, consisting of a transverse bar and arms arranged in pairs extending laterally from the end of the transverse bar'and secured to the lmovement of the upper rubber is sufficient to produce a squeezing action on the clothes at the end of each oscillation, and the movement ofy the upper rubber,combined with the particular construction of its rubbing-face,

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enables it during itsy oscillation to turn the carries the upper rubber with it, so as to afford access to the washing-machine body.

The cover is supported, when swung backward, by a brace or prop 24, composed of two sections pivoted together at their inner ends and similarly attached at their outer terminals to the cover and to the washing-machine body.

It will be seen that the washingmachine is simple and eifective, that the upper rubber, by being more pronounced than the lower one, is enabled to piel; up the clothes, turn them over, and carry them with it over the surface of the lower rubber, and that at the end of each oscillation of the upper rubber the clothes are squeezed to expel the dirt and water from them and cause the former to be carried oi by the latter through the spaces between the bars 9 and 10 of the rubbers.

IVhat I claim is- In a washing-machine, the combination of a washing-machine body provided at its sides with vertical slots, a lower rubber having an inner concave rubbing-surface and provided with journals arranged in said slots, an upper rubber mounted in the slo'ts of the washing-machine body and provided with a co11- Vex rubbing-surfaceconsisting of a series of transverse bars IO provided. at their lower edges with longitudinal curves substantially sigmoidal, the projections of one bar being disposed opposite the depressions of the adjacent bars to form enlarged pockets, the rubbing-surface of the upper rubber being more pronounced than that of the lower rubber and capable of obtaining a greater hold on the clothes to cause them to be carried by the npper rubber, the arms 17 and 2O connected with and extending upward from the upper and lower rubbers, the arm 17 of the upper rub ber being shorter than that of the lower rubber, whereby the said upper rubber is caused to travel faster and farther than the lower one, a double-crank shaft, and pitmen connecting the arms 17 and 2O with the crankshaft, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony that l claim the foregoing as my own I have' hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

` THOMAS LANDON. Witnesses;

ALFRED J. BARBER, W. G. RooKArnLLow. 

